New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-02-02
Wis, and Albert L. Ward Of Fairmont,
Mimi, have been confirmed.

non productlCn, eighteen millions.
The president nominated William Reed
Lewis Of Pennsylvania to be consul at
Tangier, and Thomas B. Connery OF New
York to be secretary OF the legation to
Mexico.
The secretary OF war sent to the house,
with an ndorsement noting his disapprov-
al, a petition by enlisted men asking that
the act authorizing a retired list for pri-
Yates and non-commissioned officers be
amended SO as to reduce the period OF ser.
vice to rs years.
Senator'elect Quay OF Pennsylvania at.
tended the same college with Blaine
Michael Davitt and his bride sailed at
New York for Liverpool, on the steamer
Alaska.
8. V. White, the millionaire New York
operator, was once a reporter for st.
Louis newspaper.
Some damageis reported from the break.
ing up OF rivers eastward.
About two hundred cases of giant pow
der exploded while in transit over the Mis-
souri, Pacific road half a mile west Of Fort
| Scott The train consisted OF twenty
three freight cars, and fifteen OF them were
| completely demolished and the magazine
| car was blown to atoms.
Gen. Pleasanton was in 1O5 battles, but
never received q wound.
| Senator Beck's bill to amend the oleo-
margarine act reduces the annual tax on
| wholesale dealers in OleOmargarine from
$3.50 500 and the license tax on retail
dealers from $4S to $12 per annum. The
| license tax on manufacturers OF oleomar-
garine is left unchanged.
| Postofice established: Iowa: Nvman,
Page county. Office discontinued-Mi
| <-. ID.
masters commissioned-Dakot Glad
stone p. w. Bates. Iowa: Oleo, w.
Davis. Minnesota: Big Lake, j. c. Parks
Wisconsin: Arthur, J. w. Nicholas; Ho-
land, }. Quillinan; Flyers Corners, w. H.
| Hoyt. Fourth-class postmasters APP.
pointed-Minnesota: Kimball, E. Peck;
Moundview, J. w. Yzokowski Iowa:
Auburn N. Buchre. Montana: Williams
H. j. Williams. Wisconsin: Elcho, r.
salberg; Brighton, j. H. Weisman; Glen
Haven, M. Bernhard; Hebron, G. c. Brown;
Larstad, G. O. Sherlock; Mt. Hope, A. f.
Storrs; St. Johns, N. Dahr.
Sandston, Pine county. Site changed
Minnesota: Green Prairie, Morrison coun-
| ty. Offices acknowledgements Ches.
ter, Dodge county. Postmasters commits.
sioned-Wisconsin: Ashland, j. Sullivan;
Pleasant Prairie, W. X. Packman.
Fourth-class postmasters appointed: Da-
kota-Millard, W. Fl. Elicott; Black
Hawk, G. L. Ward; Nova, ]. j. Dovock.
Minnesota-Micha Blewitt Audubon; w.
son, Leland; O. T. Hastings Thornburgh;
Mrs. Ella z. Gilbert, Unique.
In the secret session of the senate the
nomination OF J. c. Matthews OF Albany,
the colored recorder of deeds, was reached
| tor hor of
the senator's present giving their reasons
for the vote they were about to cast The
nomination was rejected. The vote is un,
derstood to have been II to 81. The mi.
nority three are republicans, and a proper.
tional number OF the majority are said to
be democrats.
Senator George Hearst is lying i'll at his
residence in San Francisco, with malarial
fever. He is not considered dangerous, but
it CAUSES much anxiety to his friends.
Senator Hoar thinks that more respect
is'due to the chaplain's prayer. He pro-
| posed an amendment to the rules which
shall forbid the presiding officer from call.
ing the senate to order in the absence OF a
quorum. He thinks that if there is to be
a prayer the prayer is entitled to a quorum.
At the business meeting OF the woman
suffrage convention at Washington the
old officers were reelected for the ensuing
year. Mrs. Slaughter OF Dokota and Mrs.
Mathilda .Josly Gage OF New York de-
livered addresses.
Senator Sabin thinks that the appoint.
ment OF DR.. Guernon, as collector at St.
Vincent, will soon be made.
1t is rumored that the president may
veto the Interstate commerce bill on tho
ground that it is unconstitutional.
| Hon. w. D. Washburn OF Minneapolis
and Representative Gilfllan appeared be-
! fore the senate committee on commerce in
| favor of the bill authorizing the construc-
| tion OF a bridge across the Sault Ste. Marie
river for the Minneapolis Sault Ste. Marie
d Atlantic, which is to connect at that
point with the Canadian Pacific and form
a through line from the Mississippi to the
| Atlantic.
| The pair OF spurs worn by Fred Archer
when he rode Ormonde in his last race at
| Newmarket together with the saddle used
on that occasion, says the London World,
have been sent to the prince Of Wales by
the executors, in compliance with wish
expressed by his royal highness to have
them in his possession.
| The Parnellite members of parliament
I reelected Parnell chairman Of the Irish
parliamentary party and Justin McCar-
thy vice president. Parnell has drafted
All amendment to the address in reply to
| the speech from the throne, raising the
Agraria an question in a general form.
/ Postmaster Francis E. Sharp OF Oconto,
Wis, was examined by Commissioners
| Bloodgood OF Milwaukee on a charge OF
rifiing letters, and held to await the action
OF the grand jury.
Dispatches from Fremont, North Bend
| and other points within a radius of 100
miles west OF Omaha report the people
very much startled by what is supposed to
| have been severe earthquake shock. A
/ loud rumb'ing Of the earth was percepti.
/ BILE for several seconds and buildings rock
! ed III a violent manner.
The British Parliament was opened on the
9th. The Queens speech is indefinite and
non.committal onall points and attract
ed but little attention. Lord Randolph
Churchill entered upon IN explanation Of
the reasons which lei him to resign the
CHARACTERISTIC OF the exchequer. He said:
He retired because the government e naval
and military estimates exceeded cal .O0O,-
900 without counting the large supplement